Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - LATAM

2 hours, 56 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Finance and Accounting
Remote

Remote

Global HR Solutions & Employment Tools for Distributed Teams | Remote Hire international talent in minutes. Remote is the most disruptive global payroll, tax, HR and compliance solution for distributed teams. The easier way to employ internationally 🌍....

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2019
$496M raised

Description

  • Own payroll compliance for a country or region as the accountable expert.
  • Interpret, document, and implement local requirements across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
  • Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into requirements for Product and Engineering.
  • Partner with Product Design to create compliant, intuitive, and auditable user experiences.
  • Review specifications, test logic, and validate product outputs for legislative accuracy.
  • Lead multi-country or high-risk audits from planning through remediation.
  • Establish scalable audit frameworks across new and existing jurisdictions.
  • Lead investigations and serve as the primary escalation point for regional compliance issues.
  • Design clear processes, controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms for payroll compliance operations.
  • Build training materials, documentation, and enablement sessions to upskill internal teams and coach specialists and leads.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll and employment compliance for a country or region.
  • Strong understanding of how legislation translates into payroll calculations and system logic.
  • Proven experience leading audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level compliance programs.
  • Experience partnering with technical teams to convert statutory rules into product requirements.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and senior leadership.
  • Confidence handling investigations and high-risk or sensitive scenarios with sound judgment.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching teams to build compliance capability.
  • Systems-thinking approach to designing scalable frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls.
  • Comfort working in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment.
  • Experience with automation and AI capabilities is expected across roles at Remote.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $130,000 to $146,000 USD.
  • Work from anywhere.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Flexible working hours in an async environment.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Mental health support services.
  • Stock options.
  • Learning budget.
  • Home office budget and IT equipment.

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